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Fabregas: Spain must be \'patient\'

2014-09-09 14:05:00 from:SNTV

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Spain central midfielder Cesc Fàbregas and Macedonia head coach Boško Gjurovski preview Monday's Euro 2016 qualifier.

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SOUNDBITE (English): Francesc Fabregas, Spain midfielder:

"Obviously with a new generation of players, new faces, different types of things will come in to the national team, we know what we are, we know what we want to do, but obviously with different players. You cannot ask a young player to become the new Xavi Hernandez, or a new striker like Paco [Alcacer] for example to be the new [David] Villa in one day. You need time, you need a lot of training, you need a lot of games to prove you right, and obviously when you start a new thing, you need a lot of games, you need a lot of togetherness, training. We will lose, we will win, but the most important is that we are united and that we know what we want to achieve in the future. From what I'm seeing so far everything seems positive."

SOUNDBITE (Macedonian): Bosko Gjurovski, Macedonia head coach:

ROUGH TRANSLATION

"For us tomorrow's Euro 2016 qualifier against Spain is a great challenge. We know Vicente del Bosque is creating a new team, with very young players, and that is also going to be our strategy, to build a team with new and inexperienced players. We haven't come to Valencia to defend; we're here to show our style of play, which is also pretty good, attack and to try to score against Spain. I'm not saying it will be easy; on the contrary it will be very hard. But my philosophy and the general philosophy of the Macedonian football federation is to go forward, step by step, and improve our game every time."

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